Animals and Landscape Drawing

20 Ways to Draw A Cat- Julia Kuo

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This inspiring sketchbook is designed to offer artists, designers and doodlers a fun and sophisticated collection of illustration exercises. Each spread features 20 inspiring illustrations of a single animal, such as a cat, giraffe, seal, elephant or whale with blank space for artists to explore all different illustration styles. The stylized animals are simplified, modernized and reduced to the most basic elements, showing how simple abstract shapes and forms meld to create the building blocks of any subject. Each of the 20 interpretations provides a different, interesting approach to drawing a single item. Presented in the authors uniquely creative style, this engaging and motivational practice book provides a new take on the world of sketching, doodling and designing. This paperback book is 96 pages in length.

20 Ways to Draw a Tree- Eloise Renouf

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This motivational illustration book is designed to offer artists, designers and doodlers a unique collection of fun and sophisticated exercises. Each spread features 20 illustrations of a single item, such as a tree, tulip, shell, owl, peacock feather, mushroom, cloud or berry. A blank space is then provided for the aspiring artist to illustrate their version of the item. The stylized flowers, trees, leaves and clouds are simplified, modernized and reduced to the most basic elements, demonstrating how simple abstract shapes and forms meld to create the building blocks of subject. Each of the 20 interpretations provides a different approach to drawing a single item.

Draw & Paint: Realistic Horses- Jeanne Filler Scott

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The pure beauty and spirit of horses makes them a favorite subject for artists. With the friendly instruction in this book, rendering these magnificent animals is both achievable and fun, even for beginners. Jeanne Filler Scott shows how to draw and paint the elegant lines, graceful movements and unique personalities that capture the heart. This book contains 12 start-to-finish projects that cover a variety of poses and subjects, from stately portraits of race horses to cute foals at play. Step-by-step demonstrations show how to depict accurate anatomy, powerful legs, flowing manes, expressive eyes, authentic coat colors and other key elements of realistic likenesses. Profiles outline the distinguishing characteristics and proportions of popular breeds and various stages of maturity. Rundowns on basic tools and techniques help the reader get started in pencil, acrylics and oils.

Draw Animals- Young Artists

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With this 144-page book kids can learn how to draw animals’ basic head and body shapes through easy-to-follow steps. The book contains over 100 animals, from playful dogs, cuddly cats, and hungry bears to clever monkeys, giant giraffes and ferocious sharks.

Drawing & Painting: Trees in Landscape- Claudia Nice

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This book features tips and techniques for painting trees of all kinds in their natural settings, from the majesty of mountain evergreens to the delicate pink blossoms of cherry trees in Spring. It starts with the basics, showing how to break down reference photos and open-air vistas into simple shapes, colors and textures. It guides the reader through every step of creating vibrant compositions anchored by glorious trees and foliage, including drawing and sketching techniques for mapping out successful compositions; a variety of basic tree shapes you can reference and copy, featuring more than 40 conifers, hardwoods and deciduous trees; proven color mixes for painting an array of vibrant hues, from the many different greens of foliage to the soft pastels of spring blossoms, using watercolor, oil, acrylics or mixed media; step-by-step instructions on drawing and painting important details, such as the weathered textures of bark, the sculptural shapes of bare branches in winter, aged mossy trunks, and more; techniques for working smart in any medium, such as using simple watercolor washes for distant foliage, adding details with pen & ink, and “knife painting” in oils for interesting dimensional effects.

Drawing and Painting Imaginary Animals- Carla Sonheim

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Rediscover a more child-like approach to creating! Through fun and creative exercises, this book describes how to draw a variety of fun animals and creatures such as dogs, birds, elephants, fish, cats, rabbits and more. It includes a variety of mixed-media techniques to help bring creatures to life, resulting in a fun finished art piece. Projects focus on improving drawing skills, expanding creativity and learning new art forms.

Drawing Animals- Norman Adams and Joe Singer

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With the aid of black and white illustrations, this paperback book teaches you how to draw many kinds of wild and domestic animals. Details of surface anatomy, skeletons, muscles and action poses are all included.

You Can Draw Cartoon Animals- Christopher Hart

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This personality-packed drawing book shows young artists how to bring cartoon animals to life using simple step-by-step instructions, and includes helpful tips to make drawing easy for young artists of all skill levels. From playful puppies to zany zoo animals, this book is crammed with an exciting variety of subjects to draw. Kids will also find helpful tips along the way for creating their own collection of cute critters.